The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-15

nundreotn anniversary of the execution of
Mary, Queen of Scots, which will occur
on February 9Th next, will not improb-
ably be given memorial celebration of a
public character at Peterborough and
Fotheringay.
Mrs. Caroline A. Wood, who has
just died at Cambridge, Mass, left in
her will $4,000 to Wellesley College.
$4,000 to Bates College, 1926, 900 to es-
tablish home for aged women and sew
eral thousand dollars to missions and
other charitable organizations.
The Jubilee Of Queen Victoria
will be further commemorated by the
erection in Oxford street, London, of a
tower 44O feet high at the extreme top,
from which may be seen eight or nine
counties. 1t will overlook every other
structure yet built in London, and it
is expected that the work will be COM
menced in January. The Queen will lay
the corner stone
Mot content with the great gift OF
Chantilly, the Duo d'Aumale has made
over to the village of Melville the site
on which stood the chateau in which
st. Louis was born. The building was
destroyed in the War of the League, but
the Due d'AumaIe has had a memo
rial statue of st. Louis erected on the
spot and has transformed the grounds
into beautiful park.
Mr.. Stambuloff, the Bulgarian hero
and patriot, is small but strongly built
man, with brown complexion, bright ewes
and an energetic bearing. He is only
thlrty-seven years old, and when he was
elected deputy in 1879 the Russian
conspirators tried to keep him out of his
seat because of his youth. They failed,
and he has ever since been their bitterest
foe, the traitor zankoff being his especial
detestation.
- Count Won Moltke attained his
eighty sixth birthday on the twenty-sixtb
uItlmo. He lives with great simplicity
ana regularity on his estate at Cressau.
In Sllesia, which probably accounts for
his being SO hale and hearty, and still
able to look after the laborers on his
property, though his nephew is his stew
ard The Schloss, with its four towers, is
so imbedded in trees that the visitor does
not see it till he is close to the door. The
furniture is Of the simplest, and so are
the meals.
1t is mentioned in London Life
that the German Empress Augusta has
for many years been under a "massage"
treatment. 1t is given to her by an old
woman OF the Silesian peasantry, now
more than seventy years of age, who ia
never allowed to be long away from the
court, travels with the Empress, has her
emtree everywhere, assists at all the court
ceremonies from some quiet corner, and
Is allowed to bring her daughter to the
palace to see her, rather than that she
should absent herself for journey to
her native place.
Rose Terry Cooke, the authoress,
resides in an old-fashioned mansion,
built more than hundred years ago.
just outside of the little Connecticut vii
lage of Winsted. The house, situated on
one of Connecticut's many hills, COM
mands an extensive and beautiful view
OF the valley with the mountains of Cole
brooke and Hartland in the distance.
The authoress is passionately fond of
flowers, and devotes most of her time to
the care of an old-time Yankee garden,
which Is her special pride, and the most
attractive spot of it's kind for many miles
around.
The requests of the late Hon. Dan
lei w. Lyman, of Providence, amount
to 1886. 900. Each person, male or female.
employed by him gets $500. The Society
for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Children
(of Proyidence) gets the Mansion House
and estate in North Providence, ten acres
OF land and $4,000; Swan Point Cemete.
ry, $4,000 for perpetual care;" Brown
University, $4,000 to build for any use
not sectarian building called the Ly-
man memorial; $500 to North Providence
for soldiers and sailors monument;
$4,000 to the lying-in hospital; to the
nursery, $4,000; $4,000 to Providence
for an Elisha Dyer memorial at Roger
Williams Park. Brown University is one
half residuary legatee.
The insanity of "poor Carlotta,"
ex-Empress of Mexico, has lately been
manifesting itself in an acute form. She
appears to be always searching for some
thing on the ground, and shows great
satisfaction if she can furtiyely pick up
some tri1e unseen. Her attendants are
careful to scatter small objects about
her path. She will not allow any one to
accompany her in her walks through the
park of her castle of Bourchet, and if
through the gates or ratings she sees a
passing peasant she flies and hides her
self with all the symptoms of abject fear.
The King Of the Belgians has decided to
rebuild for her occupation the castle of
Pervueren, which was destroyed by fire.
1t is situated in the midst of splendid for
ests and will insure the afflicted Empress
every privacy.
- "Will Carleton" the author of
"Betsy and Are Out" and various other